Having spent 30+ years in residential construction, contracting, remodeling, maintenance and home repair, Deane now contributes DIY, informational and financial content as a freelance writer and ...

I spent most of my childhood in London, where nobody has a/c and central heating consists of either electric storage heaters or radiators. In the US on the other hand, the standard configuration (in ...

Heating options for a building are so broad that property owners may have a hard time deciding among them They can go with the typical forced-air heating, which is highly common for its efficacy but ...

Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. Most North American homes are heated, cooled and ventilated with forced air. Some have ...

Editor’s note: Welcome to the 61st installment of Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary about renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first one here. They also blog at ...